How SEO Discovery Took Crewbloom from Zero to 12,770 AI Citations a Month

Crewbloom is a remote-based New York staffing agency. It was founded in 2016. It assists businesses in hiring qualified remote employees for sales, customer service, and operations. Crewbloom supports businesses in sectors such as SaaS, healthcare, dental, e-commerce, real estate, and finance with an expert network across 22 countries. Its staffing services additionally assist numerous customers in lowering hiring costs by up to 70%.

Crewbloom was looking for ChatGPT, Gemini, and additional AI assistants to suggest their services when users search for remote-based staffing services. To do this, SEO Discovery created a plan to increase Crewbloom’s visibility in AI search results. The plan was to monitor mentions of AI, create content that was relevant and answered common questions in an understandable manner, and improve website pages. Within five months, our AI SEO services assisted Crewbloom in growing from no AI visibility to a 27% share of AI citations for its target areas.

Client Challenges

Crewbloom required ChatGPT, Gemini, and various other AI assistants to suggest its remote staffing services. But the company wasn’t appearing in AI answers, driving traffic from AI platforms or measuring its AI search performance.

• Missing from AI answers: Microsoft Clarity revealed that AI-generated answers were not citing Crewbloom.
• No traffic from AI assistants: Google Analytics 4 indicated no visitors to the website from AI-based platforms.
• Limited performance tracking: Crewbloom had no mechanism to determine traffic from AI assistants or monitor the frequency that its brand showed up in AI answers.

Objectives

The objective was to boost the visibility of Crewbloom in AI search, connect with potential customers, increase inquiries, and observe results from AI platforms.

• Get mentioned by AI assistants: Allow AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot to include Crewbloom and provide a link to the website when responding to relevant inquiries.
• Find new potential clients: Crewbloom will be visible when people are looking for remote staffing services regardless of whether they mention the company by their full name.
• Grow inquiries and applications: Get AI platform visitors to reach out to Crewbloom or apply for open jobs.
• Monitor AI search results: Track AI citations, site visits, and key actions monthly as an indicator of progress.

Our Strategy and Approach

SEO Discovery established a detailed strategy to get Crewbloom to appear in AI responses, target potential customers, and track its success.

• AI traffic tracking: We used Google Analytics 4 to record visits from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot independently. We also looked at the rate at which AI answers mentioned Crewbloom through Microsoft Clarity.
• Keyword research and topic planning: We studied the questions consumers ask when searching for staffing services. We arranged subjects based on the core services offered by Crewbloom, such as remote staffing, healthcare staffing, recruitment, and sales and SDR hiring.
• Answer-first content: Our SEO content writing team created published useful content that responded directly to frequently asked buyer queries. This consisted of comparison-based articles like “The Top Remote Staffing Agencies of 2026” that helped new customers evaluate their choices.
• Building trust with useful content: We used the E-E-A-T and GEO guidelines in order to make Crewbloom content more valuable, trustworthy, and easy for AI platforms to comprehend and refer to.
• On-page optimization: As part of our on-page SEO services, we modified the meta titles of 66 URLs on the website. This clarified the topic and function of each page to search engines and AI platforms.
• Monthly performance reports: Each month we examined AI citations, AI platform visits to the website, most popular landing pages, and key user actions. We changed our strategy according to the results in order to enhance Crewbloom’s AI visibility.

Results

Here are the key results showing how Crewbloom gained visibility in AI answers and attracted visitors who took action.

1. Overall AI performance

• Monthly mentions of Crewbloom in AI answers grew from 0 to 12,770 in five months, reaching 36,360 citations in total.
• Crewbloom received 27% of the AI citations tracked by Microsoft Clarity for its target topics.
• Out of 36,360 citations, 36,214 (99.6%) came from questions that did not mention Crewbloom by name, helping the company reach new potential clients.
• Visitors from AI platforms spent an average of 1 minute and 28 seconds on the website and completed 130 important actions, with a 10.9% key event rate.

2. Month-by-month growth

• Website visits from AI platforms tripled in the second month, and all AI citations came from questions that did not mention Crewbloom by name.
• The third month had the highest key event rate at 15.5%, meaning more AI visitors took important actions on the website.
• AI citations reached their highest level in the fifth month, with 12,770 citations.
• In the final month, key events increased from 25 to 30 even though website visits decreased. This means more visitors took action despite fewer visits.

3. Top citation topics

• Crewbloom received the highest share of AI citations for the topic remote staffing agencies, with 31.9%.
• Crewbloom earned 52.4% of AI citations for the search query "best staffing companies remote sales team."
• It also received 48.9% of AI citations for "remote developer retention placement quality reviews."

4. Top AI landing pages

• Job pages had conversion rates of 30% to 37% when visitors arrived from AI platforms.
• Visitors from AI answers landed directly on application pages, making it easier for them to apply for jobs.
• Blog articles about top remote staffing and recruitment agencies, along with the healthcare staffing page, also attracted visitors from AI platforms.
• ChatGPT sent the most visitors to the website, while Gemini and Claude also brought in traffic.

Building Crewbloom's AI Presence

SEO Discovery enabled Crewbloom to expand from 0 AI citations to 36,360 citations in five months, obtaining 27% of all AI citations for its chosen topics. Through content marketing and website optimization, Crewbloom was able to attract new audiences. 99.6% of citations came from queries that did not include the company’s name. The results put Crewbloom in a strong position to draw in more potential clients and expand its footprint across AI search platforms.